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Mabinty Kamara
ID: SLTG015
Country: Sierra Leone
My birthday is 2014-04-25
Status: Paternal Orphan
I want to be a teacher.
I enjoy playing dodgeball with my friends.
My favorite subject is Art.
Mabinty lives with her mother and stepfather. Her mother sells cooking ingredients for a living. Her father abandoned the family many years ago. They have had no contact from him, and it is assumed he has died. Mabinty’s stepfather cannot adequately provide food and other basic needs for her and the family. Mabinty had been going to school but stopped in class 2 due to lack of funds. She wants to continue if she is able. Her favorite game is dodgeball, and she wants to be a teacher in the future.
Most parents struggle to provide their families with more than one meal a day, so the cost to send their children to school is not easy to come by. Typically, those who can afford to send one or two of their children to school will choose to send only their sons. Girls whose parents cannot afford to send them to school will be left at home to tend to daily chores, and their smaller siblings while the parents are away earning their daily wages. This lack of education and supervision makes girls just entering adolescence very vulnerable to teenage pregnancy. Girls who have not been given access to education are often left with no option but to marry at young ages to be financially supported by their husbands.